“Wetin for happen if to say the plane hit these oil tankers?”
This was a rhetorical question asked by one of the sympathisers at the scene of the Thursday’s Associate Airline crash in Lagos.
It was indeed a mixed feelings at the scene of the incident. While many were lamenting the tragedy which left 11 persons dead and four others seriously injured, others were seen thanking God that it didn’t cause further disaster by not hitting the fuel storages.
It would have been a black day for Lagosians, if the airline had crash landed on the oil tankers belonging to the Saraha Oil, as the entire airport would have been engulfed with a heavy inferno.
DailyPost observed that the ill-fated airline narrowly missed the oil tankers before it eventually hit a mango three behind the fence.
WHEN IT CRASHED
One of the security officials of Saraha Oil company said he was on duty when he heard a great noise like an explosion within the premises, “I thought it was an explosion; but when I got there, I discovered it was a plane crash,” he said.
“At first, we never knew the occupants until we got information from the airport that the plane was actually conveying the corpse of the late governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu and some members of his family. We were hearing people crying for help inside when we got there.”
According to the source, it didn’t take the rescue team of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and men of the Nigeria police that long before they arrived at the scene and evacuated the survivors to Air-Force Base for treatment.
“I saw human beings roasting like goats, I never knew when I broke down in tears,” the emotion-laden security official who pleaded anonymity, told DailyPost.
HELL ON AIRPORT ROAD.
Motorists along the airport road were held to a standstill for hours due to a terrible gridlock. Dailypost observed that many passengers who were going to Ikeja and Air-Force Base had to trek down due to the heavy traffic along the airport axis.
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